During the Qingming Festival, there are many rains, and pedestrians on the road want to die.
Ask local people where to buy wine? The shepherd boy just laughed and didn't answer Xingshan Village. Don Mutu
There are many tomb fields in the north and south hills, and the Qingming sweeps each other.
Paper ashes fly into white butterflies, and tears are dyed into red azaleas.
At sunrise, the fox sleeps in the grave. At night, his children smile at the lamp.
As long as you are alive, enjoy your wine and indulge yourself. In the grave after your death, you can't taste a drop. -Clear. Gao Juqing
These two poems by Tomb-Sweeping Day describe the drizzle in the Qingming Festival, which highlights the sadness of the sweepers in Tomb-Sweeping Day and makes people think deeply. What is life? Life is also He Huan? Why kill yourself? Is everything in the world real or empty? I move the creation of the world, and Ji Zang is fierce; How does wealth become rich? Mid-day, monthly profit and loss, annual rush, like water, all over the body, can not escape that day! A hundred years old. What do you want? Because of this, there are countless poems about Tomb-Sweeping Day. What kind of festival is Qingming, which provoked the poet to say today?
Tomb-Sweeping Day allusions
In March and April, when spring is bright, pink and green, Tomb-Sweeping Day is the most important festival in the traditional customs of China. Tomb-Sweeping Day is now a national grave-sweeping festival. According to the national calendar, it is about April 5, and according to the lunar calendar, it is the first half of March. The ancients divided a year into 24 solar terms and used this calendar to sow and harvest. Qingming is one of the twenty-four solar terms, fifteen days after the vernal equinox. As the saying goes, "Everything grows clean and bright at this time." So it's called Qingming. Therefore, "Tomb-Sweeping Day" was originally named as the solar term, and later, with the custom of prohibiting fire from sweeping graves, Tomb-Sweeping Day was formed. Originally, the Cold Food Festival and Tomb-Sweeping Day were two different festivals. In the Tang Dynasty, the day of sweeping graves was designated as the Cold Food Festival. The correct date of the Cold Food Festival is from winter to the future 105, around Qingming Festival, so Qingming Festival and Cold Food Festival will be combined into one!
The origin of the custom of sweeping graves
Sacrificing one's ancestors in front of a grave is called grave sweeping or worship. This custom originated in China a long time ago. As early as the Western Zhou Dynasty, people attached great importance to tombs. In Mencius' article about Qi people in the Eastern Zhou Dynasty and the Warring States Period, he also mentioned a ridiculed Qi person who often went to the tombs of Dongguo to beg for food and worship tombs. It can be seen that the wind of sweeping graves was very popular in the Warring States Period. When I arrived in Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, I decided to sweep the grave with cold food as one of the "five rites" at that time. Therefore, whenever Tomb-Sweeping Day comes, "the fields and roads are crowded with scholars and women, and all servants and beggars must go to their parents' graves. (Liu Zongyuan's Book with Xu Jingzhao) Grave sweeping has become an important social custom.
The custom of cold food and no fire
Zhong Er, the son of Jin State in the Spring and Autumn Period, was exiled abroad for being framed 19. Among the ministers who followed him, Jie Zhitui was the most loyal. One year, they got lost in the mountains and fainted from hunger. Jie Zhitui cut off his thigh and cooked it to satisfy Zhong Er's hunger and saved Zhong Er's life. After 19 years in exile, Zhong Er finally returned to the State of Jin and became the monarch, the famous Jin Wengong in history. When Jin Wengong acceded to the throne to award meritorious service, he forgot the recommendation of the intermediary who didn't want to seek fame, so he took his mother to live in seclusion in the mountains and refused to come back. Jin Wengong remembered Jie Zhitui, insisted on conferring the title of Hou Jin Jue, and asked Jie Zhitui to go down the mountain to receive a reward. However, Jie Zhitui was firm, and he refused to accept Lu. Jin Wengong thought that he was a dutiful son and would definitely go down the mountain for his mother's safety, so he ordered the release of Yamakaji, but the push of Xie was still missing. When the fire abated slightly, he sent someone up the mountain to look for it, and suddenly he found Jiezhitui holding a tree and his mother burned to death in the sea of fire. Jin Wengong was heartbroken and regretted his recklessness. As a good friend of Jiezhitui, he doesn't understand Jiezhitui's mind and doesn't respect Jiezhitui's decision. In memory of this friend who gave his life to save lives, Jin Wengong cut down a tree and made a pair of clogs. Thinking of Jay's push, he looked at the clogs and shouted, "One step! Step one! This means that he will always miss his friends. In addition, it was ordered that on the day Jie Zhi was pushed to death, no fire was allowed to cook, and only cold food was allowed. This is the origin of banning cold and fire.
Sentimental, welcome the spring.
Just after the cold winter, it is necessary to ban fire and eat cold food. I'm afraid that some old and weak women and children can't stand the cold. In order to prevent cold food from hurting their health, we decided to go for an outing, go for an outing, swing, play football (similar to today's football), play polo, insert willows, tug-of-war and fight chickens, so that everyone can come out to bask in the sun, exercise their bones and muscles and increase their resistance. Therefore, in addition to offering sacrifices to ancestors and sweeping graves, Qingming also has various outdoor fitness activities, which makes this festival both sad and sad, and incorporates the atmosphere of enjoying spring with joy; There are both sad and sour tears in Where Are You Going, and vivid and bright scenes everywhere. This is really a very special festival.